Two people have been arrested over alleged male genital mutilation on a baby boy.In this picture, a survivor of genital mutilation is seen caring for his intact sons.

Police officers in St. Louis have arrested two people over the genital mutilation of a baby boy, it has been reported.
The alleged criminals live in Missouri and the baby is believed to have been mutilated at five to six days old - believed to be the youngest case reported.

Male genital mutilation involves the cutting or removal of male sexual tissue and has been illegal in the US since 1996 under equal protection of the constitution.
Because a culture of acceptance surrounds the procedure, however, no one in the U.S. has ever been prosecuted for the crime, but officers hope this case could lead to the first.

Police have submitted a file to prosecutors but doubts remain because, although the little boy is now considered a human being with basic rights, it is not known if he was at the time.
Despite the high number of cases - 8,000 so far this year - nobody has yet been prosecuted for the practice.
Last month Child Protective Services said it is studying five case files passed on by the STL Police.

Director of CPS Alice Smith recently said a charge would be made relatively shortly, reports the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
More than 15,000 new cases of male genital mutilation have been revealed by a single St. Louis maternity unit and staff at St. Louis Children's Hospital admit that other cases could have 'slipped through the net.'

St Louis Children's hospital has treated nearly 200 boys a year since it started keeping records on the violent practice, it emerged last month. Disturbing statistics show that most of the victims were born in the U.S.
The operation is usually performed on newborns or young boys before entering adolescence, though ages vary from doctor to doctor.

Families often band together to protect the practice and to try to pass on a sense of normalcy to the next generation. Mutilations on baby boys are performed by MO doctors for as little as $200, often without anaesthetic, using blunt surgical tools and scalpels.

Due to the nature of the wounds, problems can occur later during puberty and sexual activity.
While the practice has been illegal in the U.S. since 1996, there have so far been no prosecutions due in part to victims' reluctance to come forward, and also because some men do not recognize it as a crime.

3 comments:

I REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND THE POINT OF A "SATIRICAL PIECE OF WORK" ON THIS SUBJECT. A "SATIRICAL PIECE OF WORK" ON YOUR DEMENTED, SICK STATE OF MIND MIGHT HAVE BEEN FUNNIER.THE MUTILATION WAS PERFORMED ON A BABY GIRL, NOT A BOY - HOW IS CHANGING THE SEX OF THE UNFORTUNATE HUMAN BEING FUNNY? DO YOU THINK TRIVIALISING THIS ISSUE BY WRITING A "SATIRICAL PIECE OF WORK" IS GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME?I WOULD LIKE TO THROW A SATIRICAL PIECE OF SH_T IN YOUR FACE, BUT YOU ARE A PIECE OF SH_T ALL ON YOUR OWN. GROW UP. IF YOU CAN NOT CONTRIBUTE TO A BETTER WORLD, DO US A FAVOUR AND DON'T CONTRIBUTE AT ALL.THANKS.

In 1996 a law was enacted that made it illegal to remove a girls foreskin/prepuce etc.At the time people said boys did not need to be included in the law because it was already illegal to do this to boys and because of equal protection laws this law would apply to boys.The problem,and the reason for this satire,is that no one has been prosecuted under those laws for doing this to boys.Thousands of boys have died and not one person involved in those deaths has gone to jail for the murders.Hundreds of thousands of boys have had severe complications/mutilations and no one has been jailed for it.This is very sad and the only way to stop it would be to enforce the laws or pass new ones with penalties severe enough that it would stop.